Re: [CVE] zlib (< 1.2.12) memory corruption
Luis Machado via Gcc <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gcc.devel,gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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Hi Nick, On 4/8/22 14:36, Nick Clifton wrote: > Hi Luis, > >> There is a CVE [1] for zlib < 1.2.12 (released march 27th). >> >> GCC currently uses zlib 1.2.11, and binutils-gdb imports the zlib >> directory from GCC. The recommendation is to get it updated to 1.2.12, >> which contains the proper fix [2]. > > I am all for updating the binutils-gdb copy of zlib. I will wait a > couple of > days to see if anyone else has any comments or concerns, but if not, then I > will apply the patches myself. I did a quick check and there seems to be some differences between gcc's zlib subdir and binutils-gdb's zlib subdir. I think there has been some fixes that we may have to port over from our current zlib subdir. I tried simply replacing the subdir, but that didn't work right.